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Ogadi's life always seemed to take a turn for the worse. Born in Umuneke, a remote African village, to a father and forced to live with Onome, a wicked stepmother, Ogadi thought life couldn't be worse. She quickly found out how wrong she was when she was plucked out of Umuneke and thrown into the city. Amidst the painful feelings of bitterness, sorrow, poverty, blackmail and joyful celebration, the mysteries surrounding poor Ogadi's past, present and future is revealed by the author.
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The sky and the earth
-Unbalanced from agarvated
World Parents is a creation myth. There are two types of world parents myth. One of them describes eternal union of two parents and the creation happens when they part ways. The two parents are the Sky - male and the Earth - female. According to the myth, the creation happens as a result of sexual union.
Absence are excuse for school
Explanation:
The poem opens with the poet watching the deserted South Boston Aquarium, which he had visited as a child. The ruined building is symbolic both of his lost childhood and of the decay of Boston, undergoing massive urban renewal, which upsets such milestones as the Statehouse and the sculpture of Colonel Shaw.
The statue causes the poet to think of Shaw, an abolitionist’s son and leader of the first black regiment in the Civil War. Shaw died in the war, and his statue is a monument to the heroic ideals of New England life, which are jeopardized in the present just as the statue itself is shaken by urban renewal.
Images of black children entering segregated schools reveal how the ideals for which Shaw and his men died were neglected after the Civil War. The poem’s final stanzas return to the aquarium. The poet pictures Shaw riding on a fish’s air bubble, breaking free to the surface, but in fact, the aquarium is abandoned and the only fish are fin-tailed cars.
This poem is a brilliant example of Lowell’s ability to link private turmoil to public disturbances. The loss of childhood in the early section of the poem expands to the loss of America’s early ideals, and both are brought together in the last lines to give the poem a public and private intensity.
The poem is organized into unrhymed quatrains of uneven length, allowing a measure of flexibility within a formal structure.
